Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Siegbert Salomon Prawer (born February 15, 1925 in Cologne, Germany and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry and Jesus College, Cambridge) is Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College London from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969. He is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

His sister is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

He has written on German poetry and lieder, comparative literature, and film.

Works

*German Lyric Poetry: A Critical Analysis of Selected Poems from Klopstock to Rilke (1952)
*Mörike und seine Leser (1960)
*Heine. Buch der Lieder (1960)
*Heine the Tragic Satirist: A study of the later poetry 1827-56 (1961)
*The Penguin book of Lieder (1964) editor and translator
*Essays in German Culture, Language and Society (1969) with R. Hinton Thomas, Leonard Wilson Forster, Roy Pascal
*Heine's Shakespeare: a study on contexts (1970) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 5th May, 1970
*The Romantic period in Germany. Essays by members of the London University Institute of Germanic Studies (1970) editor
*Seventeen modern German poets (1971)
*Comparative literary studies (1973)
*Karl Marx and world literature (1976)
*Heine's Jewish comedy: a study of his portraits of Jews and Judaism (1983)
*A. N. Stencl, Poet of Whitechapel (1984) 1st Stencl Lecture
*Coal-Smoke and Englishmen (1984)
*Caligari's children : the film as tale of terror (1979)
*Frankenstein's island: England and the English in the writings of Heinrich Heine (1986)
*Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse (1997),
*Israel at Vanity Fair: Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W. M. Thackeray (1992)
*W. M. Thackeray's European sketch books : a study of literary and graphic portraiture (2000)
*"The Blue Angel". London: British Film Institute 2002, (BFI Classics)
*. London: British Film Institute 2004, (BFI Modern Classics)
*Between Two Worlds : The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1919-1933. New York - Oxford: Berghahn Books 2005 (Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context)